You and Your Lab Partner Are Doing an Experiment in Physiology

Multiple Choice

You and your lab partner are doing an experiment in physiology lab.Each of you has an isolated muscle cell and you are supposed to stimulate it with an electrode as soon as its absolute refractory period ends.You're watching an electromyograph tracing to know when to use the electrode.Your partner has a cardiac muscle cell and you have a skeletal muscle cell.Which one of you will use your electrode more times in one minute?

A) Your partner will use the electrode more times in a minute than you will.
B) You will use the electrode more times in a minute than your partner will.
C) You both will use the electrode the same number of times.
D) The number of times you will use the electrode in a minute cannot be determined by this information alone.